[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2729 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2729

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale or other 
transfer of small arms armor piercing ammunition and components of such 
                  ammunition disposed of by the Army.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1999

 Mr. Blagojevich introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale or other 
transfer of small arms armor piercing ammunition and components of such 
                  ammunition disposed of by the Army.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Armor Piercing Ammunition 
Resale Limitation Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON RESALE OR TRANSFER OF ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION 
              DISPOSED OF BY THE ARMY.

    (a) Restriction.--(1) Chapter 443 of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 4688. Armor piercing ammunition and components: condition on 
              disposal
    ``(a) Limitation on Resale or Other Transfer.--Whenever the 
Secretary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or otherwise) of 
small arms armor piercing ammunition, or a component of small arms 
armor piercing ammunition, the Secretary shall require as a condition 
of the disposal that the recipient agree in writing not to sell or 
otherwise transfer any of that ammunition (reconditioned or otherwise), 
or any component of that ammunition, to any purchaser in the United 
States other than a governmental or law enforcement agency.
    ``(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply to a transfer of a 
component of small arms armor piercing ammunition solely for the 
purpose of metal reclamation using a destructive process such as 
melting, crushing, or shredding.
    ``(c) Small Arms Armor Piercing Ammunition Defined.--In this 
section, the term `small arms armor piercing ammunition' means 
ammunition that is .50 caliber and under and that has a center-fire 
cartridge and a United States military nomenclature designation of 
`armor penetrator', `armor piercing (AP)', `armor piercing incendiary 
(API)', or `armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API-T)' ''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``4688. Armor piercing ammunition and components: condition on 
                            disposal.''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 4688 of title 10, United States Code 
(as added by subsection (a)), shall apply with respect to any disposal 
of ammunition or components referred to in that section after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
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